Arnold Howard on tue 8 jan 08
after several deep and pensive musings
From:
> If I were to employ the opaque fabric 'tent' or 'cube' or
> Gauze Igloo, or
> whatever it is, I would simply suspend it for the Camera
> to look 'down'
> through it, making a little hole in the end of it if need
> be for the Camera
You can also make a light box. Suspend it above the camera
and aim it down toward the plate. Experiment with angles
until the reflections on the plate go away.
A light box holds a light source and diffuses it with a
translucent plastic covering. It is easy to make. If you
visit photography studios, you will likely find all kinds of
homemade light fixtures.
Sincerely,
Arnold Howard
Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
ahoward@paragonweb.com / www.paragonweb.com
Lois Ruben Aronow on tue 8 jan 08
after several deep and pensive musings
Pardon my getting short about this, but Google would have spared us this,
drawn out thread. I really think you guys over think things sometimes.
Here's one of MANY instructions:
http://www.studiolighting.net/homemade-light-box-for-product-photography/
by the way, it's traditional for product photography to look as if the
object is "floating". It shows more detail, and makes it easier for the
image to be clipped digitally for magazines and fliers, etc. the downside
is that it's very lifeless.
The EZCube *IS* a lightbox. there are also hard-sided ones, which are more
of a controlled environment.
...Lo
who believes that potters should NOT take their own pics - unless they are
also photographers
**********
Lois Aronow Porcelain
Brooklyn, NY
www.loisaronow.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of
> Arnold Howard
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:59 AM
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: Re: photo plates - The Summary elucidaiton of a
> Method - after several deep and pensive musings
>
> From:
> > If I were to employ the opaque fabric 'tent' or 'cube' or
> Gauze Igloo,
> > or whatever it is, I would simply suspend it for the Camera to look
> > 'down'
> > through it, making a little hole in the end of it if need
> be for the
> > Camera
>
> You can also make a light box. Suspend it above the camera
> and aim it down toward the plate. Experiment with angles
> until the reflections on the plate go away.
>
> A light box holds a light source and diffuses it with a
> translucent plastic covering. It is easy to make. If you
> visit photography studios, you will likely find all kinds of
> homemade light fixtures.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Arnold Howard
> Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
> ahoward@paragonweb.com / www.paragonweb.com
>
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Vince Pitelka on tue 8 jan 08
after several deep and pensive musings
Lois wrote:
"By the way, it's traditional for product photography to look as if the
object is "floating". It shows more detail, and makes it easier for the
image to be clipped digitally for magazines and fliers, etc. the downside
is that it's very lifeless."
Lois -
If you are photographing the face of a plate or shallow bowl, it doesn't
hurt to have it appear to be floating in space, because that's how you would
see it if it were hanging on the wall. I have always gone by the guideline
that if you would normally view the object sitting on a table, pedestal,
counter, or shelf, then it should be photographed so that you can see the
surface that it is sitting on (the seamless backdrop). If you photograph a
vase or covered jar so you cannot see the surface it is sitting on, you lose
some of the sense of three-dimensionality of the piece, and like you say, it
looks lifeless. Either objectively or subjectively, the viewer's response is
"Why is that pot floating in space?"
I can see how it makes sense to give the effect that a piece is floating in
space if you were going to cut-and-paste the image in PhotoShop. But of
course that's not why most of us are photographing our work.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Tech University
vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
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